The Dauphin Fire Department Remembers September 11th
This Sunday, the Dauphin Fire Department will be having a 50/50 draw and stair climb challenge to remember those that were lost 15 years ago on 9/11.
The DFD are inviting residents to swing by the Fire Station for an open house from noon until 4 pm, where there will be free hotdogs between 12 pm and 2 pm.
Members of the DFD using a stair machine, will start the stair climb challenge at 8:46 am, the time that American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
They will continue to climb and trade off until the draw at 4 pm, pausing to take a moment of silence at times noted that fateful day 15 years ago.
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Multiple Sightings of Missing 21-Year-Old Woman
Winnipeg police say there have been a number of possible sightings reported of a missing 21-year-old woman.
Christine Wood disappeared after leaving a downtown hotel on August 19th.
She had been staying in Winnipeg with her parents from Oxford House First Nation, while accompanying a family member to a medical appointment.
Her parents made an emotional public plea earlier this week for help to find their daughter and police say they've received several reports of her being seen in various parts of the city.
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Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Receives Generous Donation
Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park has been given another big boost towards the creation of Canada's Diversity Gardens.
Shirley Richardson and her family announced a $2.5 million-dollar donation yesterday.
That ensures the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden -- which opened in a temporary exhibit at the zoo in 2011 -- will make the move when the new facility is built.
Richardson said the donation was inspired by time she used to spend with her husband in the park.
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Winnipeg Conference Aims To End Cross-Border Human Trafficking
A conference in Winnipeg aims to establish a protocol between Manitoba and North Dakota to help end cross-border human trafficking.
Organizers say thousands of Canadian teens are lured into empty hotel rooms every year, and end up being moved around circuits across Canada and the United States.
CEO of the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking, Barb Gosse says the goal of the conference's participants is to set up a collaborative and responsive system of dealing with that.
She says that will include training border control officers to be able to spot potential cases of human trafficking.
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Federal Authorities Fight Over The Dakota Access Pipeline
Federal authorities in the United States have entered the fight over the Dakota Access pipeline.
Mere minutes after a judge rejected a native American tribe's request to halt construction on the project, the feds ordered work to stop on one section.
The chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe called the federal intervention a "beautiful start," but said the dispute is far from over.
The tribe alleges the project will harm water supplies, and has already disturbed ancient cultural sites.
